I've got a little round belly That shakes when I laugh, Like a bowlful of jelly...
I would like to start your GVT in a few weeks. Should I take some time off after a high-intensity cycle before I begin it? And what should I do during that period?
A classic and controversial interview with powerlifting legend Louie Simmons.
This all-day arm workout is completely nuts… but it works. Check it out.
Researchers Jar Physiology World With Evidence of Other Hamstring Movements.
I take a few weeks off from training several times each year, and I am concerned about whether this is counter productive.
Think of bodybuilding as a language, and think of the exercises we do in the gym as words in that language.
Too often, training programs seem to be put together with all the forethought of a Congressional campaign. In other words, very little forethought is generally involved.
When most of us want to make some sort of long-term change to our bodies, we generally look for answers in the medicine cabinet.
It occurred to us that our website didn't really contain any workouts. I mean, if you, the loyal reader, just wanted to log on and pull out a new workout, you couldn't do it. You'd probably have to resort to pulling out a copy of Ironman or something (shudder).
I love squatting, but when I go heavy (5 RM or less), I get freaked out, and I think this fear is somehow inhibiting my success in the movement. Any ideas as to how I can get around it?
There are scores of biceps movements. Furthermore, there are hundreds of ways to do those biceps movements. The trouble is, unless you're involved in this business full-time, you tend to adopt certain exercises and do them over and over again, to the exclusion of all others.
As bodybuilders and chemical daredevils, we augment this and we augment that. We take steroids. We take prohormones.
It's a hot Saturday in the Colorado Rockies and I'm at the office trying to think of a topic for an article. I've been sitting here for hours, just staring into the computer screen.
I read one of your articles where you said that, in your opinion, Zottman curls are the best exercise for beefing up one's upper arm.
Could you give me some advice on how to get my forearms to grow? They don't seem to want to budge at all, no matter what I do.
Think of bodybuilding as a language, and think of the exercises we do in the gym as words in that language.
In a lot of ways, Nelson Montana is the prototypical Testosterone reader. He doesn't have any official training in biochemistry he's actually a musician and an actor but he's read everything he's been able to get his hands on, and he can hold his own with a lot of academically trained experts.
It happened just the other day. A fellow gym rat cornered me at the drinking fountain and started complaining about a supplement he just bought at GNC that hadn't done squat.
Contrary to popular belief, the Swiss Ball is not where you take Swiss tennis star Martina Hingis after she wins the Wimbledon Championship. The Swiss Ball is actually an large, inflated, polyurethane/vinyl ball that can be an indispensable aid in training arms, legs, or any other body part for that matter.
Look down at your gluteal junction the point where your caboose meets your hamstring and look for something called a gluteal fold. A well-developed hamstring/glute junction is smooth.
Over the years, I've built a pretty good physique, but the guy who owns the gym where I work out says I have the upper trap development of Bill Gates.
In Part I of this article, I carefully picked out seven of Charles Poliquin's principles and tried to make them a little easier to understand. Of course, as I mentioned, picking out only seven was a little like trying to pick my top seven favorite Hanson songs?okay, bad analogy.
In the old days, whenever a doctor said something anything it was pretty much taken as gospel. After all, they're all incredibly bright, they all pull down some serious cash, and, well, they're doctors.
I too have my own version of the seven percent solution, only it has nothing to do with illegal opiates. Instead, it has to do with rep schemes. I call it my Five Percent Solution.
